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THE MULTILATERAL COMENIUS PROJECT:. & Sc ence - . THE BEST AMBASSADORS OF THE NATIONAL VALUES WITHIN EUROPE. ( September 2012 – August 2014). UNITY IN DIVERSITY ?.
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THE MULTILATERAL COMENIUS PROJECT: & Scence - THE BEST AMBASSADORS OF THE NATIONAL VALUES WITHIN EUROPE ( September 2012 – August 2014)
UNITY IN DIVERSITY ? • As the EU motto suggests, the European culture might better be described as a series of multiple cultures, often competing: geographical regions opposing one another, different branches of Christianity, which are similar, but still different, many traditions rooted in ancient customs, etc. There are many cultural innovations and movements, often at odds with each other, which makes the question of "common culture" or "common values" much more complex than it seems to be. • Historically speaking, upon the pagan cultures of aboriginal Europe, the foundations of modern European cultures[1] were laid by the Greeks, strengthened by the Romans, stabilized by Christianity, added to by the rest of Europe, reformed and modernized by the fifteenth-century Renaissance and Reformation, and globalized by successive European empires between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. Thus the European Culture developed into a very complex phenomenon which developed through a long age of change and formation with the experiments of enlightenment, naturalism, romanticism, science, democracy,fascism, communism, and socialism. • In what follows, we, the project partners, are going to present the most important customs and tradition specific to our countries, trying to find what individualizes each of our countries and what is common to all of us. During the transnational mobilities ,we all had the opportunity to experience and feel that there are many things, traditions, customs, values which unite us, are common to all of us and some, but much fewer which are unique. • References: • 1. SailenDebnath, Secularism: Western and Indian, ISBN 9788126913664, Atlantic Publishers, New Delhi